Course Overview OCR GCSE MEDIA

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For example exam paper (1) click here. Example exam paper (2) click here.

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Ever wanted to design and film your own music video or film trailer? Fancied writing for a newspaper or designing your own video game? Then why not start your journey by completing a Media GCSE?

THE EXAM

70% of the GCSE

Component 01: Television and promoting media

1HR 45 MINS

There are two sections:

In section A: Television, students engage with an in-depth study of one contemporary and one historic television products, responding to questions covering the whole of the theoretical framework and a range of media contexts.

In section B: Promoting media, students study media products from the same global conglomerate producer illustrating the media forms of film, advertising and marketing, and video games.

Component 02: Music and news

1HR 15 MINS

There are two sections:

In section A: Music, students engage with one in-depth study covering magazines, a comparative study of music videos and a study of contemporary radio.
In section B: News, students engage with one in-depth study of online news, including its social and participatory media. Students also study contemporary and historical newspaper front pages and how they illustrate changing social, cultural, historical and political contexts.

COURSEWORK

30% of the GCSE

Creating media (60 marks)

You will create media products through applying your knowledge and understanding of media language and media representations to express and communicate meaning to an intended audience.

You must work independently to research, plan and produce one individual media production in response to an OCR set brief (set in the Summer of Y10) from any one of the four following media forms:

• Magazines

• Television

• Music Video

• Online (including radio podcasts)